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Holger Nehring
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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

Political science 53%
History 22%

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This is very sad news.
Beautiful tribute in memory of the great Bill Burr from Richard Immerman mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...
In Memoriam: Bill Burr
mailchi.mp

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Beautiful tribute in memory of the great Bill Burr from Richard Immerman mailchi.mp/shafr.org/20...
In Memoriam: Bill Burr
mailchi.mp

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Today in 1982 at 10:32 AM, at Cordwalles Middle School in Camberley, England (~14 miles from Windsor Castle), a nuclear attack siren was accidentally activated for four minutes. “Christmas shoppers did not bat an eyelid and life went on as if nothing was happening.” (H/t @nuclearwar.bsky.social.)

Yesterday morning at the canal.

Gute Besserung!

There's a great online map of the Roman road network (from ca 200-400 AD), compiled by Tom Brughmans and his team: itiner-e.org

Some background here: Alle Wege führen nach Rom? Von wegen

www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...
itiner-e
itiner-e.org
For this week’s DOOMSDAY MACHINES, I interviewed my good friend @cherylrofer.bsky.social about her +30 year career at Los Alamos — topics discussed include gender, lasers, and much more — doomsdaymachines.net/p/working-at...
Working at Cold War Los Alamos
A conversation with the chemist Cheryl Rofer about her over thirty year career at Los Alamos
doomsdaymachines.net

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Carabinieri from Cultural Heritage Protection Squad arrest 24 people & notify restrictions to 21 others as part of operation that discovered illegal archeological digs at 76 sites, mostly in Sicily, recovering 10k artefacts worth €17m. Trafficked artefacts were sold at auction in the UK & Germany.
"Ghenos", scavi clandestini e traffico internazionale di reperti: il blitz
La notizia su LiveSicilia.it
livesicilia.it

I think he means the astronomical teem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syzygy_... (suspect that the plant is called that for that reason, or vice versa?)
Syzygy (astronomy) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

'Das ist die Erfahrung, größten Seelengewalten wehrlos ausgeliefert zu sein...Und die Beruhigung ist hinterher oft noch schmerzlicher als die Katastrophe selbst. Weil man da erst merkt: Das Schlimme war immer schon da, und das wird nicht weggehen. Nie!'

zeitung.faz.net/data/565/rea...
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
zeitung.faz.net

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He's not wrong. Famously, the Spice Girls really really wanted to syzygy zig aaah.

'Evidently one wants a syzygy'.
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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'Turbocharging growth'

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UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October on.ft.com/44p2krp
UK economy unexpectedly contracts by 0.1% in October
Growth has slowed throughout the year
on.ft.com
This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time

"Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?"

Chair says "have English as a second language"

Caption changes the meaning entirely
"Don't speak fluent English"

'Je me suis trouvé devant un désordre phénomenal de la pensée...' - quite a courageous choice to kick off with.

I did that and got 'Evidently, one wants a syzygy'.

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I'm not going to lie. I find these numbers staggering. Why would you not? Is it not free for NHS frontline workers?
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

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Clearly the only font that really counts, but that no one can really use, is “Engravers Gothic”. It is ordained by God himself. It is a font of beauty. End of story.

#Vatican

[Issue goes back to the Biden admin, which said the same, so this is not a new problem]
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Hatte ich übersehen. Keine schöne Situation (und davon ist ja nicht nur Deutschland betroffen):
EXCLUSIVE: US denies German request to integrate American artillery rockets | Euractiv
The refusal could make it more difficult for the German military to cooperate with the US and other NATO allies
www.euractiv.com

[Mit Schweizer und auf gar keinen Fall mit schwäbischem Akzent zu lesen].
Oder auch:

From the Rhine to the Oder / Germany isch over
Eyal Weizman: „Deutschland leugne nicht nur den Genozid in Gaza und relativiere den an Nama und Herero, sondern verweigere damit auch die Anerkennung eigener historischer Kontinuitäten – eine subtile Form der Holocaustleugnung sei das.“ www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

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Oder auch:

From the Rhine to the Oder / Germany isch over
Eyal Weizman: „Deutschland leugne nicht nur den Genozid in Gaza und relativiere den an Nama und Herero, sondern verweigere damit auch die Anerkennung eigener historischer Kontinuitäten – eine subtile Form der Holocaustleugnung sei das.“ www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...
Deutschland als eine Art rechtes Sparta
Frust an der Debatte: Auf einer Tagung in Zürich zeichnen deutsche linke Intellektuelle die Gegenwart und Zukunft Deutschlands in düsteren Farben.
www.fr.de

What a zzzzzinger!

Es geht u.a. um Bücher aus dem Nachlass von Brigitte Hamann (Hitlers Wien).
Ein wichtiger Prozess beginnt nun: Antiquar Schaden muss sich nun vor den Geschworenen verantworten. Als Zeugen beantragt: Sibylle Hamann und Oliver Rathkolb.

www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Der Dissertationspreis für exzellente Arbeiten der historischen Frauen- und #Geschlechterforschung des #AKHFG geht an Corinna Peres mit dem Buch über "Enslaved women, their work, and their children in the Datini merchant community 1380s-1410s": akhfg.de/preistraeger...
Preisträgerin 2025 - Arbeitskreis Geschlechtergeschichte
Dissertationspreis Preisträgerin 2025 Corinna Peres “She wants to do it her own way.” – Enslaved Women, Their Work, and Their Children in the Datini Merchant Community, 1380s–1410s „In ihrer wunderbar...
akhfg.de

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Ein wichtiger Prozess beginnt nun: Antiquar Schaden muss sich nun vor den Geschworenen verantworten. Als Zeugen beantragt: Sibylle Hamann und Oliver Rathkolb.

www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...